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ArticlePloS one2013

Long-term in vivo imaging of multiple organs at the single cell level.

Benny J Chen, Yiqun Jiao, Ping Zhang, Albert Y Sun, Geoffrey S Pitt, Divino Deoliveira, Nicholas Drago, Tong Ye, Chen Liu, Nelson J Chao

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Article in PloS one, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
0.1field-weighted citation impact, top 44% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Benny J ChenDepartments of Medicine, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America.
Yiqun Jiao
Ping Zhang
Albert Y Sun
Geoffrey S Pitt
Divino Deoliveira
Nicholas Drago
Tong Ye
Chen Liu
Nelson J Chao
Duke Medical Center · USUniversity of Alabama at Birmingham · USUniversity of Florida · US

Funding

Somatostatin analogues as countermeasures against intestinal radiation toxicityU19AI067798 · NIAID · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI CHAO, NELSON J. · 2005 to 2024
$82.1M
THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES TO OVARIAN/BREAST CANCER--HIGH DOSE CHEMOTHERAPY AND ABMSP01CA047741 · NCI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI HASSELBLAD, VICTOR · 1990 to 2013
$19.5M
MULTIDISCIPLINARY HEART &VASCULAR DISEASEST32HL007101 · NHLBI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI FREEDMAN, NEIL J. · 1985 to 2020
$9.8M
Calcium regulation and dysregulation of cardiac ion channelsR01HL071165 · NHLBI · WEILL MEDICAL COLL OF CORNELL UNIV · PI PITT, GEOFFREY S · 2002 to 2017
$5.2M
Skin Stem Cells in Combined Radiation InjuryR33AI080525 · NIAID · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI CHAO, NELSON J. · 2010 to 2012
$1.1M
NCI NIH HHS P01 CA047741NCI NIH HHS P01-CA047741NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL071165NHLBI NIH HHS T32 HL007101NIAID NIH HHS R33 AI080525NIAID NIH HHS R33-AI080525NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI067798NIAID NIH HHS U19AI067798
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Two-photon microscopy has enabled the study of individual cell behavior in live animals. Many organs and tissues cannot be studied, especially longitudinally, because they are located too deep, behind bony structures or too close to the lung and heart. Here we report a novel mouse model that allows long-term single cell imaging of many organs. A wide variety of live tissues were successfully engrafted in the pinna of the mouse ear. Many of these engrafted tissues maintained the normal tissue histology. Using the heart and thymus as models, we further demonstrated that the engrafted tissues functioned as would be expected. Combining two-photon microscopy with fluorescent tracers, we successfully visualized the engrafted tissues at the single cell level in live mice over several months. Four dimensional (three-dimensional (3D) plus time) information of individual cells was obtained from this imaging. This model makes long-term high resolution 4D imaging of multiple organs possible.

Indexed as

AnimalsApoptosisEar AuricleElectrocardiographyFlow CytometryHeartHematopoietic Stem Cell TransplantationImaging, Three-DimensionalMiceMice, Inbred BALB CMice, Inbred C3HMice, NudeMicroscopy, Fluorescence, MultiphotonModels, AnimalMyocardiumSpleen

Identifiers

PMID23300962
PMCPMC3534688
OpenAlexW2032895254

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